
Glass-block flagship
- Location
- Tehran
- Year
- 2025
- Type
- Exterior
- Scope
- Design, supply, installation
- Color temperature
- 2700 K
- Control
- DALI, astronomical time switch
A glass-block retail facade lit from within, so the whole building reads as a lantern.
The facade is a grid of cast glass blocks with no visible structure, so there was nowhere to hide a fixture on the outside. All of the light comes from behind the glass.
Linear profiles sit in the floor edge at every level and wash the inner face of the blocks. Each block scatters the light differently, which gives the surface its texture. A time switch follows sunset through the year and drops the facade to a third of its output after midnight.

| Type | Description | Color temperature | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1 | Linear LED profile behind the glass block | 2700 K | 420 |
| L2 | Narrow-beam grazer at each slab edge | 2700 K | 96 |
| L3 | In-ground marker at the entrance | 3000 K | 24 |
Sample project. The text, figures and photos on this page are placeholders and do not show work by Sina Sazeh.
Placeholder images via Wikimedia Commons: cover.jpg by Basile Morin (CC BY-SA 4.0), detail-1.jpg by Basile Morin (CC BY-SA 4.0).